Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , one day we were all laughing and going to take the world by storm with our painting , our films , our crazy music . |
| 2 | Trying not to give the game away she got ready to run , listening and endeavouring to locate the direction of the breathing . |
| 3 | One patient receiving cyclosporin had severe nausea and vomiting and had to discontinue the study after one year . |
| 4 | He placed two of the sticks at right angles overlapping and began to twist the wire to fix the two sticks together . |
| 5 | But if Berowne had been writing and had blotted the paper at the desk , where was it now ? |
| 6 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 7 | The adjutant watched them stroll back to their billets , unbuttoning their flying coats , stamping and kicking to work the stiffness away . |
| 8 | Erm the course will cover cutting , stretching , squeezing and pulling the petal shape and putting together by wiring , gluing and taping to form the flowers , one day course ten A M to four P M , twelve pounds fifty , inclusive of materials per person . |
| 9 | The British believed that Washington was underestimating and failing to grasp the nature of their economic problems . |
| 10 | Five mallard shot past the tree in which he was hidden , their muttered quacks in mid-air soft as the sun that crept the way they were going and began to fill the lake with light . |
| 11 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 12 | The pump manufacturer was held liable for the value of the lobsters ( property damage ) but not for the costs of buying and attempting to repair the pumps . |
| 13 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 14 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 15 | Many hours of work have been put in by them in tracklaying and modelling to scale the station buildings , engine sheds , goods shed and signal box as they were . |
| 16 | But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ‘ the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ‘ almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ’ . |
| 17 | Because I believe that it is the women that goes through all the pain , suffering and has to carry the burden of the chance of getting pregnant which a man does not have for obvious reasons . |
| 18 | Scientists all over the world drop what they 're doing and try to discover the secret for themselves . |
| 19 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |
| 20 | Once he had found his clothes and put them on , Ellwood stood up to massage his arms and legs , rubbing and slapping to get the feeling back and loosen the knotted muscles . |
| 21 | The Doctor was shuffling and trying to untie the knots which fastened his arms behind his back . |
| 22 | I could n't stop talking and kept thanking the anaesthetist profusely . |
| 23 | From that moment David took absolute control and while Rachel crawled back into the space and fitted the collar , immobilising Len as much as possible , he administered a pethidine injection , all the time talking and trying to reassure the patient . |
| 24 | The driver was bent over the wheel , while his passengers leant out of their windows waving and shouting to attract the attention of the taxi driver . |
| 25 | But before he could complete the sentence , he saw Tony Cashman , solid as a double-decker bus , loom into view behind Ruth , who was gesticulating and trying to explain the reason for the interruption . |
| 26 | A second lay on the floor , writhing and trying to pull the mask off his face . |
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| 28 | Jones mailed all the details to Pons as the detector was now working and beginning to gather the data that would be the basis of the Brigham Young University-Rafelski paper . |
| 29 | Invitations and threats , bargaining and cursing filled the air , coming from the mouths of men , women and ragged children and mingling with the sound of dogs barking , chickens fussing , mules braying . |